Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 82. (Budapest 1990)

Tóth, T.: In memoriam Dr. János Nemeskéri (1914-1989)

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Tomus 82. Budapest, 1990 p. 5-7. In memóriám Dr. János Nemeskéri (1914-1989) by T. TÓTH, Budapest On the 5th of September, 1989 died from a severe disease the founderhead of the Anthropological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, retired scientific councillor of the Demographic Research Institute of the Central Statistical Bureau. He was born in Budapest on the 9th of April, 1914. He graduated at the Philosophical Faculty of the Pázmány Péter University in Budapest, where he did his student course in 1932-1937. In these years he was a resource student in the Anthropological Institute of the University. His work was continued in the Anthropological Collection of the Hungarian Ethnographical Museum in Budapest (1937-1939), and then in the Craniological Collection of the Archeological Department of Hungarian National Museum - till the end of 1944. Between 1945 and 1965 he headed the Anthropological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. From 1965 till 1984 he worked as a senior scientific officer in the Demographical Research Institute of the Central Statistical Bureau, where till his death he was a scientific councillor. Between 1970 and 1984 he was lecturer of anthropology in the Department of Zoology and Anthropology of the Kossuth Lajos University in Debrecen. His scientific research work based on the interdisciplinary investigation of recent and sceletalized populations from different millennia. Consequently, from the 1950s his attention was focused on paleademographical problems. For a wide-ranging paleobiological reconstruction many data were sampled by him in a number of collections in abroad, too. In 1938 in his doctoral theses he worked out the anthropology of the Hajdus. For his research activity in 1952 he was awarded to be candidate in biological sciences. He paid special attention to human lifespan and mortality (with GYÖRGY ACSÁDY, 1970). In collaboration with a number of Hungarian and foreign authors he has written some 200 scientific papers. Especially important are his papers published until 1965 containing the subjects of his lectures held on the sessions of Corona Archeologica (19451948). In 1945 he became Private Docent in the Pázmány Péter University in Budapest having the right to lecture about the anthropology of peoples inhabiting the Carpathian Basin during the migration period. From 1956 till 1965